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...is the point of no return? German physicist, Karl Schwarzchild calculated the event horizon of black holes. And it can tell us more about the eventual fate of all the galaxies...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses. Transcript Read Stephen Serjeant on the speed of light Discover how you can study physics and astronomy with The Open University...

...how Einstein was right all along about the expanding Universe. We never should have doubted him...Find out more about The Open University's Natural Sciences courses. Transcript Read Stephen Serjeant on what it means to equate the curvature of the Universe with the amount of stuff in the Universe Discover how you can study physics and astronomy with The Open University...

...skills. Good luck and I’ll see you next week. After this study week, you should be able to: perform addition and subtraction with fractions perform multiplication and division with fractions understand how fractions can be used in everyday life...Week 4: More parts of the whole: 1 Adding and subtracting fractions - In this section, you will look at how to add and...

...studying meteorite samples, many of which are recently recovered falls just like the Winchcombe meteorite, but also a few that have been collected in cold deserts like Antarctica. However, he has never before worked on a meteorite that was collected less than 100 miles from his laboratory at The Open University in Milton Keynes. The reason being is that meteorite falls in...

...studying certain elements in our genome , previously considered to be 'junk', hold the key to the treatment of several diseases? One OU Ph.D. student explains her research:...The non-coding component of our genome [the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA] shows the flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA via transcription and then to proteins via translation....